Renovation of a municipal facility in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Completed plans call for the renovation of a municipal facility.

Following the criteria in the Plan, the Corporation has selected six potential Project Areas, defined as "Project Area A" (2,198 Eligible Locations), "Project Area B" (367 Eligible Locations), "Project Area C" (489 Eligible Locations), "Project Area D" (1,217 Eligible Locations), "Project Area E" (188 Eligible Locations), and "Project Area F" (4,273 Eligible Locations), as detailed further in Exhibit B. These Project Areas have a demonstrated need for affordable, high-speed broadband based on listening sessions, workshops, survey responses, speed test submissions, and other forums. The Corporation seeks proposals to design and build a last-mile, End-to-End Fiber optic broadband infrastructure for as many of the proposed Project Areas described above and in Exhibit B as funding is available. As such, the Corporation seeks to engage with one or more selected Proposer(s) to deliver a network of End-to-End Fiber that improves speed, resilience, and latency of current lastmile networks in as many of the Project Areas as funding allows. A Proposer may respond to any or all of the Project Areas, but the selected Proposer(s) must serve all BSLs within each Project Area for which they are selected. The Project must be designed to deliver, upon project completion, service that reliably meets or exceeds symmetrical download and upload speeds of 100 Mbps and latency of less than 100 Milliseconds. The deployment must be completed, and services activated, by December 31, 2026. Final day to Submit any Questions or Comments January 13, 2025 Questions, interpretations, or clarifications concerning this RFP should be directed by e-mail to RFP@commerceri.com no later than 11:59 pm on January 13, 2025. Rhode Island Commerce Corporation reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for not complying with the terms of this RFP This is the third round RFP for ARPA CPF funds; it is anticipated that $4,705,916 will be available for broadband deployment projects.